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   Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is making her first   
   Northwest appearance in several years next Thursday before the   
   Vancouver Board of Trade, a paying gig in the $200,000 range.   
   Nice work if you can get it.   
      
   But the Democrats’ 2016 presidential frontrunner is shutting out   
   all media coverage of the B.C. event. An e-mail Friday from Greg   
   Hockstra of the Board of Trade, addressed to Vancouver   
   journalist Craig McCulloch, said:   
      
   “Hillary Clinton’s office has advised us that there will be no   
   media accreditation or special media access for this speech. As   
   part of our contract with her office, this will be a private   
   speaking engagement. There will also not be any streaming of the   
   speech.   
      
   “I can add you to our distribution list for upcoming media   
   advisories.”   
      
   The blackout is not without precedent. In 2012, Republican   
   presidential  candidate Mitt Romney made a fundraising foray   
   into Portland and Seattle (well, actually, Medina) that the   
   candidate’s staff did not announce and refused even to confirm.   
      
   President Obama’s last four visits to the Seattle area have been   
   “dash for cash” events, with the President speaking only before   
   big donors. The tab in November’s visit as $16,200. But two   
   Seattle pool reporters were allowed into Jon Shirley’s art-   
   filled Medina mansion to hear Obama’s stump speech (but not to   
   hear Obama take questions, or to ask any.)   
      
   Bill Clinton’s last Board of Trade appearance in 2010 — the ex-   
   President fielded questions from former British Columbia finance   
   minister Carole Taylor — was open to media coverage. So was his   
   previous six figure gig three years earlier.   
      
   Repeated efforts by seattlepi.com to contact Hillary Clinton’s   
   office about the Vancouver speech have received no reply.   
      
   The ex-Secretary of State may be keeping a low profile until her   
   memoirs are published. She can then profit from media coverage   
   to make book sales.   
      
   http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/02/28/hillary-   
   clinton-to-nw-media-go-to-hell/   
      
       
      
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